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The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice…

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Govorya o Pervoy mirovoy voyne, vsegda vspominayut odno proizvedeniye Erikha Marii Remarka. . .«Na Zapadnom fronte bez peremen». . .Eto rasskaz o nemetskikh mal'chishkakh, kotoryye pod deystviyem patrioticheskoy propagandy idut na voynu, ne znaya o t ..

Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead' is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle. First published in 1949, as America was still basking

‚One of his masterpieces …without doubt a great novel‘ Guardian One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a mo ..

Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into „Arthur Gordon Pym“ in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows New England boy, Pym, who s ..

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. Born into slavery during the early nineteenth century, Frederick Douglass es ..

"In Narziß und Goldmund bekommen die zwei Grundformen des schöpferischen Menschen Gestalt: der Denker und der Träumer, der Herbe und der Blühende, der Klare und der Kindliche. Beide verwandt, obwohl in allem ihr Gegenspiel, beide vereinsamt, beide vo ..

Hermann Hesses Erzählung über den Gegensatz zwischen Geist- und Sinnenmenschen und ihre produktive Vereinigung im Künstler ist eine moderne Gestaltung des Don-Juanund Casanova-Motivs. Sie ist aber auch ein Loblied der Freundschaft, voller Abenteuer i ..

Dieses Buch zeichnet sich durch zeitgemäße Gestaltung, Bilder und Fotos, Info-Kästen, klare Textgliederung und beantwortete Verständnisfragen aus. Auserdem schreibt die Lektüre Worterklärungen in den Text. Der Wortlaut wird nur geringfügig modifizier ..

A new translation by Meredith McKinney.

Kniha Nature of Middle-earth autora John Ronald Reuel Tolkien vydaná v nakladatelství HarperCollins Publishers v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 464, ISBN-13: 9780008387945, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

A message from a dead acquaintance prompts a bus tour to an unknown crime…

"With an increasing distance from the twentieth century the New England poet, author, essayist, and stunningly profuse epistolary Howard Phillips Lovecraft is beginning to emerge as one of that tumultuous period s most critically fascinating and yet ..

„The New York Trilogy“ is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story the search ..

The volume includes: „Youth“; „The Secret Sharer“; „The Lagoon“; „An Outpost of Progress“; „Il Conde“; and, „The Duel“. The intention is a range of settings – we move from the sea to the colonial world, the Far East and Africa to England and then the Continent.

'His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But the eyes were already glazed in death, and before Francis could reach the bed the body had toppled over and lay iner ..

Japanese fairy tales – enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world. Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa's stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories such a ..

"DeDaumier-Smith

George Orwell's masterwork, now in the Penguin Clothbound Classics series with a cover designed by Coralie Bickford-SmithOne of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World''Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls ..

The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were newly creat ..

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most famous and influential novels of the 20th century. This terrifying dystopia, which he created in a time of great social and political unrest, remains acutely relevant and influential to this day ..

Kniha Nineteen Eighty -Four vydaná v nakladatelství Chiltern Publishing v roce 2021, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, počet stran: 336, ISBN-13: 9781912714988, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

„Я от души советую вам почаще заглядывать в книги Чехова… чтобы, забываясь, пережить эти сказочные сны так, как они были задуманы“, – говорил В. В. Набоков. Чеховский художественный мир, как мозаика, складывается из отдельных картин и ситуаций, из ..